CAPTURE OF A FOOD SHIP.
VESSEL TAKEN TO FIUME. Renter. LONDON. Sept. 25. An extraordinary act of piracy is reported from Trieste. A band of 20 Arditi volunteers, officers and men, who had grown tired of waiting, decided to capture the steamer Venezia., carrying food to Pola. The volunteers at night time boarded the vessel in small parties. They mixed freely with the sailors and 54 passengers the following morning, but when the steamer was nearing Pola about noon the volunteers took up positions at the various gangways while a group of officers sprang on to die bridge, and presenting revolvers, ordered the captain, who is a Croat, to steer for Fiume. The crew were similarly surprised, and an officer entered the saloon and calmed the passengers. The steamer arrived at Fiume in the evening, and was received with enthusiasm, d'Annunzio granting the volunteers special distinction.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LVI, Issue 17276, 27 September 1919, Page 9
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